Early Years Domestic Support Assistant - St Leonards Nursery - EDN29133
| Posting date: | 15 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | £23,087.00 to £23,388.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH8 9SY |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | EDN29133 |
Summary
Job Description
Education and Children Services
Early Years Domestic Support Assistant
St Leonard's Nursery
Salary: £23,087 - £23,388 (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 15 per week, 39 weeks sessional
Working Pattern: 10:30am to 1.30pm Monday to Friday
St Leonard's Nursery is looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our talented Nursery Team. The successful applicant will:
- Deliver basic food preparation and cooking for children’s snacks respecting children’s dietary needs with regard to ethnicity and particular needs in discussion with the early years practitioners.
- Take delivery of any nursery lunches and following the safe food policy and procedures.
- Support early years practitioners to serve snacks and meals.
- Ensure the kitchen areas meet environmental health requirements on a daily basis and to report any defects to the SLT.
- Be responsible for overseeing the rotation of stock and that all legislative requirements are met with regard to the safe storage of food.
- Support the team by cleaning up the early years establishment keeping the environment attractive, hygienic for the children throughout the day as required.
- Assist with any laundry by loading the washing machine and dryer and ensuring any nursery clothing, towels, cloths etc are kept clean.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
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Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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